Question

Chris is creating a triangular-shaped garden. He creates a scale drawing with coordinates A, B, and C to represent each corner of the garden. Triangle ABC has vertices located at A(4, 0), B(4, 3) and C(–3, 0).

(a) Graph the points above to form the triangle that represents Chris’s garden. Use the formula for the area of a triangle to determine the area of the garden in square units. Show your work.

Answer 1

@Trennadi239

Answer 2

@l_o_w_key

Answer 3

will give a medal and give a medal

Answer 4

sorry i suck a geometry.

Answer 5

@satellite73 can you help her?

Answer 6

@satellite73

Answer 7

????

Answer 8

@Awolflover1

Answer 9

@YesterdayiSaidTomorow @dan815 @blondie$$$

Answer 10

what we need is a nice picture of the triangle
do you have one or would you like me to post one for you?

Answer 11

i don't have

Answer 12

now you do
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=triangle+%284,+0%29,+%284,+3%29+,%28%E2%80%933,+0%29.

Answer 13

ok

Answer 14

you can see that since both \((-3,0)\) and \((4,0)\) are on the \(x\) axis and that the point \((4,3)\) is directly above \((4,0)\) you have a nice right triangle

Answer 15

now you want the area right?

Answer 16

do you know how to find it?

Answer 17

hold on

Answer 18

idk

Answer 19

the formula is \[
A=\frac{1}{2}bh\]or one half base times height

Answer 20

the base is the distance between the points \((-3,0)\) and \((4,0)\)
how far is that?

Answer 21

no

Answer 22

not sure how you got that
3 steps to 0, another 4 steps to 4 , or \(3+4=7\) steps total

Answer 23

ohhhhh ok

Answer 24

how many steps up from \((4,0)\) to \((4,3)\)?

Answer 25

8

Answer 26

nope

Answer 27

look at the picture i sent
count the steps from 0 to 3

Answer 28

hey can we do these do tommorow ????

Answer 29

OK